“Trapped” Civilians: Obstruction of evacuation of civilians during the armed conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk regions

We offer you the joint report of the UHHRU and the Centre for Civil Liberties on cases of interference in evacuation of civilians, prepared on the results of monitoring visits to Donbas in spring 2015 under the aegis of the Coalition of NGOs and Initiatives “Justice for Peace in Donbas”.  Human rights defenders managed to explore a number of cases where people fell under fire simply trying to leave. And this is only one form of preventing evacuation by illegal armed formations, which proves that safe evacuation formula has not been invented.

The report was published with support of the USAID Human Rights in Action Activity